Month: May 2017

The Senate might finally be doing its job and investigating Trump’s businesses. Since this whole business with Trump-Russia started, everyone in the know has been shouting at Congress to look at his shady business ties, and now they are. Per the New Yorker, I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. He laughed and…

Despite widespread counternarrative, decades of careful political machinations laid crucial groundwork for Donald Trump’s election. Donald Trump’s ubiquitous portrayal as a renegade outsider, beholden to no political party or established decorum, might be the most unacknowledged fake news item of the past two years. Despite a lack of name recognition — or perhaps precisely because of their anonymity — the various forces working to install a President Trump have been actively pursuing their goals for a very long time.…

By now, I am sure all of us remember the story of Jack Abramoff. He’s just a rich lobbyist who got caught doing bad things and he brought down two congressmen and a bunch of other lobbyists, right? That is all true, but what I am about to tell you is going to blow your mind. Jack Abramoff started off with his foot in the door of the conservative movement due to his fathers friendship…

Scott Pruitt is no stranger to being on the wrong side of history. Now he is blaming Obama for Conservative failures. According to the Washington Times, In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Mr. Pruitt said the past administration talked a good game on the environment, but has little in the way of concrete accomplishments. He pointed to the environmental disaster in Flint, Michigan, and the Gold King Mine spill, both of which led to…

Ultimately, James Comey deserved to be fired because of his involvement in the election season. The letter he produced two weeks before the election make reason enough to fire him. However, this statement courtesy of NPR makes no mention of that. “Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office. President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein…

Sally Yates is going to testify today at 2pm about her warnings regarding Michael Flynn, after being rudely fired by the Trump administration for not following bad orders. Per TPM Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The highly anticipated hearing — it is Yates’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since her firing in January — is expected to fill in…

Donald Trump is making a slow march towards dictatorship. I am not saying that he will be Hitler, but he’s clearly making moves to expand his power. If you look at his past, you see that he has made many comments praising people like Putin, the Chinese leadership, Saddam Hussein, and various other third world dictators. He has tweeted quotes from Mussolini and obviously favors a “strong man” approach to leadership. Hence, my concern for…

Trump has had a lot of misses picking people to serve him. While eventually settling on Mcmaster, it isn’t a secret that McMaster was his fourth of fifth choice. Per the Wall Street Journal The nominee, Mark Green, withdrew Friday, citing “false and misleading attacks” against him. He is the second of Mr. Trump’s nominees for Army secretary to drop out prior to appearing before the Senate for confirmation. Mr. Trump’s first nominee for Navy…

The Republicans literally fought to remove pre-existing conditions. They lost, but they still tried. Nothing the Republicans do for healthcare is helpful. 4. The Republicans literally fought to remove pre-existing conditions. They lost, but they still tried. Nothing the Republicans do for healthcare is helpful. 3. The Republicans literally fought to remove pre-existing conditions. They lost, but they still tried. Nothing the Republicans do for healthcare is helpful. 2. . The Republicans literally fought to…

Someone should tell Donald Trump that the LGBT community being able to do what they want to do doesn’t hurt him or any of his American Taliban cohorts. It has been reported by multiple sources that Trump plans on signing an executive order supporting religious freedom – a term used by conservatives to justify bigotry. Per the Nation The four-page draft order, a copy of which is currently circulating among federal staff and advocacy organizations,…